Selling Illusory Joy: Emotions, Big Data and the Coming Retail Renaissance
By Christopher Surdak and Ed King
Today the world is awash in massive amounts of context-rich data. Whether it’s GPS position information, social media posts,...
The Rationality of Risk: Creating Real Value After a Legacy of Easy Money
By Christopher Surdak
In order to get back on the path of value-creation and rational, sustainable economic growth, businesses must first tackle their tendency towards...
Better Be a Baller: The Coming Talent Gap May be the Opposite of What...
By Christopher Surdak
The concept of Big Data has rapidly emerged as web and telecoms-based networking has expanded on a global scale. Christopher Surdak explores...
Dubai: A City of Jerks
By Christopher Surdak
Chris Surdak shares the lessons he has learnt from Dubai's strategies to “Jerk” or disrupt the way that information is created, stored...
Creeping Towards Creepy: Companies Must Learn Constraint with Big Data, Before it’s Too Late
By Robert D. Owen and Christopher W. Surdak
Companies have invested billions just to utilise technology to analyse customer needs and wants with maximum accuracy....
Deming, Darwin and Mrs. Doubtfire: How the Seven Deadly Disruptors are Changing Manufacturing
By Christopher Surdak
In this age of disruptive change, technological innovations can either ease all your worries or bring you the greatest discomforts you’ve ever...
Hey, You, Get Off of My Cloud What Stones Can Teach Us about...
By Christopher Surdak
In their 1960’s hit song, “Get Off of My Cloud,” Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones lament about others around them ruining...
FED Up With Big Data Hype? How Central Banks Struggle with Digital Disruption
By Christopher Surdak
Since releasing his latest book, “Jerk: Twelve Steps to Rule the World,” Christopher Surdak has spoken with thousands of business and governmental...
Captain Dunsail to the Rescue! As Technology Advances We May Finally Be Forced to...
By Christopher Surdak
Christopher Surdak argues that in order for businesses to earn the highest returns on information technology, they must focus their investments on...
This Too Shall Pass Change is Not Only Necessary, It’s Inevitable
By Christopher Surdak
If one word was used to describe the year we have just lived through my choice would be “change”. For most businesses,...
The Rationality of Risk, Part 3: Rollercoasters, Burning Ships and the Hero’s Journey
By Christopher Surdak
In part three of the series on The Rationality of Risk, Chris Surdak gives some guidance on making friends with risk. Loss,...
